Quote by Alvin Toffler
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. – Alvin Toffler

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